Connecting means for two-part automobile doors



Feb. 8,1927, 1,616,803 i R. w. HULL CONNECTING MEANS FOR TWO-PART AUTOMOBILE DOORS Filed March 29, 1924 Zlwuenkw of a door looking Figure 3 by means of rivets 13, or in any I'nonnm: w. norm,

or ooNNnnsvI 'L iNDIANAyA S SIG-NOR H v j'coMrANY, or CONNERSVILLE, INDIANA, a conroNArIoN or e anx MnNut orunINe INDIANA.

CONNEC ING MEANS non Two-rarer AUTOMOBILE noons'.

invention relates to improved yielding and flexible connecting means for two-part automobile doors having demountable upper sections such as are commonly used in connection with what are known as winter tops. i "Referring to which are made apart hereof and'ion which My said similar reference characters indicate similar parts,'

Figure 1 is a fragmentary from the vehicle body.

Figure 2 a section on line-Q-Q of 'Fig ure 1; and l .v

Figure 3 a section on line 8-3 ofI-igure 1. y I I In the drawings reference character 10 1ndicates the outer panel of the demountable upper door-section which section comprises also a wooden frame surrounding the sight opening of the door and support-ingoneor more panes of glass. At the closing side of the door a strip of sheet metal l2is at tached to the upright member 11 ofthe wooden frame in the manner illustrated in other suitable or convenient manner. In

the present instance it will be seen that the rivets extend through both sides of thebent strip 12 the bar 11 and the panel 10 thereby securing all of the parts firmly together.

At its inner forward corner the bar is cut away to provide a square socket to re ceive the square upright'end of a connecting rod 14;, the conformation of: the'socket thus formed being intended to be the same as a cross section ofthis part of the rod so that the rod will be 'held'securely in place.

body of said rod extends along the lower side of the lower bar 11 of the wooden frame adjacent the.

mountable door section. The connector rod is bent in such a manner that the body 14:

will diverge from the plane of the door when the upright arm is entered in the socket of the member 11.

A post 15 is slidably mounted on the body ofthe connector rod near its extremity the I post being flattened at its lower end and having a head with, an opening matchlng the shape of the rodr It is to beunderstood that the rod is preferably squarebut it may assume other rectangular forms or it may be elliptical or have any other irregular or nonrelation ofthe post to x away frointhe planeof the upper the accompanying drawings,

side elevation inside of the although other a I means may be used for' securing the parts'to- The' function of thisstirrup is to is tilted to cause the post in the lower door section a tendency for the upper I strike the door frame before the lower side lower edge of the de the invention and therefore Application filed March 29, 1924, Sria11Io,702,962.]

circular shape if- -only the shape be such will not turn on the rod. The the rod andthe door section is'such that-it liesin a plane diverging toward the interior of the vehicle body that the post section and also away from the vplane in 'which' the angularly related parts of the connectornormallylie -A stirrup '16 is proyided in connectlon with the bar 11 said stirrup embracing the bar and-being secured thereto by rivets 17 extending through the bar and both side members of'the stirrup conventional or preferred getherQ v confine the body of theconnector bar loosely with relation to the upper door section. A plate 18- extends across the joint between the bars 11 and 1-1 for bracing the corner of the door. I v v I In positioning the upper demountable door door section on the lower permanent door section may enter a socket time the demountablersection of the door to enter the socket o f fthe 'door reaches closing position. thus biasing the upper and closing sides or edges of the door toward thevehicle body thereby imparting side of the door to I am enabled to prevent rattling and rumbling noises due tolooseness in the conneca tions between the door and the vehicle body.

It will be obvious art that various changes may device 7 without departing from I do not'limit myself to the precise construction shown in the drawings and described in the specifica-' be made in my claims. I

Having fully described my said invention what I claim is: a

1. A two-part door for'vehicles compris ing an upper demountable section adapted tion, but only as indicated in theappended 1 to those skilled in the I the I spirit of 1 to be positioned on'a lower "permanentse'c- 's'ocketat one side o'f'th'e 'door, a fconnector 1 tion said upper section having a "vertical rod having a normally upright arm in soc et-formed therein at the closing side of said socket and a body extending along the the door and said socket being rectangular loweredgeofsaid'upper'section, and-a-post in section, a connector rod rectangular in having an opening fitting closely about a sectionhaving an upright arm fitting flush part of said body non-circular in section 5 in said socket and 'a body extending along said 'post lying inapl'a'nfe'inclined relatively the lower margin of thedemountable section to that of the upper door section whereby in the same plane with said arm, a depending when the post is positioned in the plane :stirrup embracing the-body of said r'oda'nd of the lower door section the'upper edge-of a ipost'secured to the "body ofthe connector the upper door section is biased toward the rod andradap'ted to enter a socketset slight vehicle body, substantially as set forth. 1y inclined from the vertical plane of said 3. A connector for two-apart vehicle doors connector rod'sa'id post normally lying in a comprising a resilient rod having angularlyplane diverging from sa d vertical plane related parts, and a post on oneofsaid-parts whereby when the upper demountable seosaid vpost having a n0n-c1rcular'eye -fittlng tion isin blaceonthelower permanent secabout a 11on-circula1-;part of thefrod whereby tion itsupper edge and its 'tree vertical edge oscillation of'the spost crosswise of th e rod will be biased toward the vehicle body,-s'ub may twist the rod, substantially as set forth. stan-tially'as set forth, In witness whereof, I have hereunto set 2. A twoepart door for vehicles comprismy hand-at Connersville, Indiana this 25th 'ing-an upper demountabl'e section :adapted day of March, A. D. nineteen ,hundred'and to be positioned on a lower permanent sectwenty four.

t-ion said upper sectlon having a vertical 1 ROBERT w. HULL. I 

